pop depression radio show
pop depression #40 to #59
date: November 12th 2001 - April 1st 2002

pop depression #40
date: November 12th, 2001.
anniversary special - 150 minutes of eclectic tunes
features: Ventolin, Cotton Mather, Sparklehorse, Low, Mogwai...

Teddy Pendergrass "Love TKO" (Very Best of Teddy Pendergrass_Golden)
Joe Henry "Stop" (Scar_Mammoth)
Shelby Lynne "I Can't Wait" (Love, Shelby_Island)
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci "How I Long" (How I Long To Feel The Summer In My Heart_Mantra)
Ventolin "Gloria" (Inhaler_DIY)
Calexico w/Neko Case "Ballad Of Cable Hogue" (Live at ULU_Bootleg)
Ventolin "Major Event" (Inhaler_DIY)
Snow Patrol "One Night Is Not Enough" (When It's All Over We Still Have to Clear Up_Jeepster)
The Dears "End of A Hollywood Bedtime Story" (End of A Hollywood Bedtime Story_Grenadine Records)
Cracker "Merry Christmass Emily" (Forever_Virgin)
Sparklehorse "The Ghost In The Sky" (It's A Wonderful Life_Jap IMP)
Cotton Mather "Monterey Honey" (The Big Picture_Rainbow Quartz)
Beth Orton "Where Do You Go" (Superpinkymandy_EMI Japan)
Belle And Sebastian "Marx And Engels" (I'm Waking Up To Us CDEP_Jeepster)
Lambchop "Nine" (Tools In The Dryer_Merge)
PJ Harvey "Good Fortune" (Reading 2001_bootleg)
Detroit Cobras "I'll Keep Holding On" (Mink Rat Or Riot_SFTRI)
White Stripes "Apple Blossom" (De Stijl_SFTRI)
Dream Syndicate "Thar's What You Always Say" (The Days Of Wine And Roses_Rhino)
The Two Minute Miracles "Songs For The Weekend Girls" (Volume 2_Teenage USA Rec.)
Neil Young "Cortez The Killer" (Zuma_Reprise)
Low "Because You Stood Still" (Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me_Chairkickers Music)
Mogwai "My Father My King" (My Father My King Ep_Rock Action Rec.)
Wilco "Ashes Of American Flags" (Yankee Hotel Foxtrot_bootleg)
Dump "Pop Life" (That Skinny Motherfucker With High Voice_Shrimper)
Stereo Total "Je Suis Venu Te Dire Que Je M'En Vais" (Stereo Total_Bobsled)
Francoiz Breut "Si Tu Disais" (Vingt a Trente Mille Jours_Bella Union)
Ash "Candy (french version)" (Candy EP)
Camera Obscura "Eighteis Fan" (Eighties Fan EP_Andmoresound)
Paul McCartney "Freedom" (Freedom SP)
The Strokes "When it Started" (Is This It?_RCA)
New Pornographers "Letter From the Occupant" (Mass Romantic_Mint rec)
R.E.M. "Yellow River" (All The Way To Reno EP_WB)

pop depression #41
date: November 19th, 2001.
features: Ikara Colt, the Von Bondies, Ventolin, The Dears...

Mercury Rev "Funny Bird" (Le Divan du Monde 08112001_bootleg)
Ikara Colt "At The Lodge" (Sink Venice EP_Fantastic Plastic)
Astrid "Modes Of Transport" (Play Dead_Fantastic Plastic)
Sparklehorse "Piano Fire (remix)" (Piano Fire EP_Capitol)
The Dears "This Is Broadcast" (End of A Hollywood Bedtime Story_Grenadine Records)
Tindersticks "Rented Rooms (swing version)" (Rented Rooms EP_This Way Up)
Ventolin "Broken Bones" (Inhaler_DIY)
Green On Red "Hair Of The Dog" (Gas, Food, Lodging_Mau Mau Records)
Detroit Cobras "Won't You Dance With Me" (Love, Life & Leaving_SFTRI)
The Von Bondies "In The Act" (Lack Of Communication_SFTRI)
Walkabouts "Got No Chains" (Sub Pop 200_Sub Pop)
The Seedling "Add It Up" (Live - Birmingham Custard Factory 01112001_bootleg)
Bearsuit "Hei Jaska, Hei Jokunen" (Peel Sessions_bootleg)
Pavement "The Killing Moon" (Major Leagues EP_Matador)
Ballboy "I've Got Pictures Of You In Your Underwear" (Girls Are Better Than Boys_sl Records)
John Denver "Take Me Home, Country Roads" (Greatest Hits_RCA)
Cotton Mather "Heaven Helping" (40 Watt Solution EP_Rainbow Quartz)
Hefner "Painting And Kissing" (Live - Birmingham Custard Factory 01112001_bootleg)
Wilco "War On War" (Yankee Hotel Foxtrot_Bootleg)
Posies "King Midas In Reverse" (VA - Sings Hollies In Reverse)
Lambchop "Up With People (Zero 7 reprise mix)" (Tools In The Dryer_Merge)
Twilight Singers "The Twilight Kid" (Twilight, As Played By The Twilight Singers_Columbia)
Essiar "Romance" (Summer In Minsk_Radio Khartoum)
Bob Dylan "Sweetheart Like You" (Infidels_Columbia)

pop depression #42
date: November 26th, 2001.
features: Camera Obscura, the Von Bondies, KaitO, Ventolin, Ikara Colt...

J Mascis & The Fog "Everything Flows Medley" (John Peel Sessions 100101_bootleg)
KaitO "Succosanko" (You've Seen Us... You Must Have Seen Us..._Fierce Panda)
Flaming Lips "Riding To Work In Year 2025 (You're Invisible Now)" (Zaireeka_WB)
Ikara Colt "Sink Venice" (Sink Venice EP_Fantastic Plastic)
Bearsuit "Hey Charlie, Hey Chuck" (Peel Sessions_bootleg)
The Strokes "Trying Your Luck" (Live At KCRW_bootleg)
The Dears "Heartless Romantic" (End Of A Hollywood Bedtime Story_Grenadine Records)
Sparklehorse "Shade & Honey" (Piano Fire EP_Capitol)
Camera Obscura "Anti-Western" (Biggest Bluest Hi-Fi_Andmoresound)
Neko Case "Dreaming Man" (Canadian Amp_Bloodshot)
Wilco "Jesus, Etc" (Yankee Hotel Foxtrot_bootleg)
Camera Obscura "Eighties Fan" (Biggest Bluest Hi-Fi_Andmoresound)
Jim O'Rourke "Get A Room" (Insignificance_Domino)
The Crystals "He Hit Me, And It Felt Like A Kiss" (Back to Mono)
Ventolin "Gloria" (Inhaler_DIY)
Steve Wynn "There Will Come A Day" (Here Come A Miracles_Blue Rose)
Cotton Mather "Story Of Anna" (The Big Picture_Rainbow Quartz)
White Stripes "I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself" (Steve Lamacq Sessions_bootleg)
The Von Bondies "Cryin'" (Lack Of Communication_SFTRI)

pop depression #43
date: December 3rd, 2001.
features: Ventolin, Chris Lee, Papa M, Christina Rosenvinge, Camera Obscura...

George Harrison "Horse To The Water" (Small World Big Band: Jools Holland & His R'n'B Orchestra)
Ventolin "Gloria" (Inhaler_DIY)
Giant Sand "Music Arcade" (Volume 2: The Rock Opera Years_Official Bootleg Series)
Neil Young "Powderfinger" (Rust Never Sleeps_Reprise)
Ventolin "Major Event" live in session
Chris Lee "On The Beach" (Plays & Sings Torch'd Songs, Charivari Hymns & Oriki Blue-Marches_Smells like Records)
Ventolin "Broken Bones" live in session
Gun Club "Mother OF Earth" (Miami_IRS)
Ventolin "Untitled" live in session
Jack, Meg & Holly "It's True That We Love One Another" (demo)
Papa M "Beloved Woman" (Whatever, Mortal_Domino)
Ventolin "Mellow My Mind" live in session
Melys "Chinese Whispers" (Chinese Whispers SP_Sylem Records)
Camera Obscura "Happy New Year" (Biggest Bluest Hi-Fi_Andmoresound)
Ventolin "Melasa" (Inhaler_DIY)
Christina Rosenvinge "Hunters Lullabye" (Frozen Pool_Smells Like Records)
Bonnie "Prince" Billy "I See A Darkness" (Live in Munich 08042001_Bootleg)

pop depression #44
date: December 10rd, 2001.
features: the Dirtbombs, Chris Lee, Papa M, John Wolfington, Camera Obscura...

Andre Williams "Jail Bait" (Bacon Fat_Fortune)
the Dirtbombs "If You Can Want" (Ultraglide In Black_In The Red)
Detroit Cobras "Shout Bama Lama" (Love, Life & Leaving_SFTRI)
the Dirtbombs "Livin' For The City" (Ultraglide In Black_In The Red)
White Stripes "Stop Breakin' Down" (Lamacq Session, 19-221101_bootleg)
Papa M "Roses In The Snow" (Whatever, Mortal_Domino)
Bonnie "Prince" Billy "A Dream Of The Sea" (More Revery_Domino)
Chris Lee "Lonesome Eyes" (Plays & Sings Torch'd Songs, Charivari Hymns & Oriki Blue-Marches_Smells like Records)
Silver Jews "Tennessee" (Bright Flight_Domino)
Tim Buckley "Martha" (Sefronia_Manifesto)
Bill Janovitz "Like Shadows" (Up Here_spinART)
Camera Obscura "The Sun Oh His Back" (Biggest Bluest Hi-Fi_Andmoresound)
Belle And Sebastian "I'm Waking Up To Us" (I'm Waking Up To Us CDEP_Jeepster)
Zwan "Don't Let Me Down" (Glass House Show 161101_bootleg)
Silver Jews "I Remember Me" (Bright Flight_Domino)
John Wolfington "Ageless Sky" (s/t_Smells like Records)
Lali Puna "Scary World Theory" (Scary World Theory_Morr music)
Dump "Erotic City" (That Skinny Motherfucker With The High Voice?_Shrimper)
Spiritualized "Broken Heart" (Abbey Road EP_Spaceman)
Afghan Whigs "John The Baptist" (1965_Sony)

pop depression #45
date: December 17th, 2001.
features: Cornelius, Neil Young, Evan Dando, I Am Sam OST, the Von Bondies...

Flaming Lips "It Was Very Good Year" (Chairman Of The Board_LSR/Grass Records/Dutch East India Trading)
The Dears "Jazz Waltz No. 3 In B Flat" (End Of A Hollywood Bedtime Story_Grenadine)
John Wolfington "Coney Island" (s/t_Smells like Records)
Cornelius "Drop" (Point_Matador)
Cornelius "Star Fruits Surf Rider" (Fantasma_Matador)
Cornelius "Brazil" (Point_Matador)
Clare "One Night 2001" (One Night 2001_Chocolate Art Returns)
Grandaddy "Revolution" (I Am Sam OST_Bmg/V2)
Magnetic Fields "Let's Pretend We're Bunny Rabbits" (69 Love Songs_Merge)
Neil Young "Let's Roll" (white label)
Evan Dando "Sam Stone" (Live at the Brattle Theatre/Griffith Sunset EP_Modular/EMI)
John Prine "Sam Stone" (Great Days: John Prine Anthology_Rhino)
Evan Dando "Ba De Ba" (Live at the Brattle Theatre/Griffith Sunset EP_Modular/EMI)
Papa M "Glad You're Here With Me" (Whatever, Mortal_Domino)
Bonnie Prince Billy "Same Love That Makes Me Laugh" (More Revery_Domino)
Eric's Trip "My Bed Is Red" (Eric's Trip Show_Teenage USA Records)
Silver Jews "Horseleg Swastikas" (Bright Flight_Domino)
Rufus Wainwright "Across The Universe" (I Am Sam OST_Bmg/V2)
Wilco "War On War" (Yankee Hotel Foxtrot_bootleg)
Christina Rosenvinge "Taking Off" (Frozen Pool_Smells Like Records)
Chris Mills "Waitin' For Superman" (Chris Mills web site exclusive)
the Dirtbombs "If You Can Want" (Ultraglide In Black_In The Red)
Detroit Cobras "Stupidity" (Love, Life & Leaving_SFTRI)
the Von Bondies w/Jack White "No Sugar Mama" (John Peel Sessions 221101_bootleg)
the Von Bondies "Sound Of Terror" (Lack Of Communication_SFTRI)
The Zoobombs "Don't Diddley" (BOMB YOU LIVE_Teenage USA Records)
Preston School Of Industry "Falling Away" (All This Sounds Gas_Matador)
J Mascis & The Fog "Waistin'" (John Peel Sessions 100101_bootleg)

pop depression #46
date: December 24th, 2001.
features: Bertrand Burgalat, Cornelius, Give The People What We Want - Songs of The Kinks, Evan Dando, I Am Sam OST...

Belle & Sebastian "The State I Am In" (Tigermilk_Jeepster)
the Dirtbombs "I'm Qualified To Satisfy You" (Ultraglide In Black_In The Red)
Detroit Cobras "Midnight Blues" (Mink Rat Or Riot_SFTRI)
Low "Just Like Christmas" (Christmas_Kranky)
The Dears "Le Pauvre Chanteur (From The South Shore)" (Syrup & Gasoline Vol. 2_Grenadine)
Bertrand Burgalat "Ma Rencontre" (The SSSound Of MMMusic_Eperor Norton)
Cornelius "Drop" (Point_Matador)
Nikol Kollars "I Go to Sleep" (Give The People What We Want - Songs of The Kinks_Sub Pop)
Lambchop "Love TKO" (Tools In The Dryer_Merge)
Spiritualized "I Didn't Mean to Hurt You" (Let It Come Down_Spaceman)
The Minus 5 "Wicked Annabella" (Give The People What We Want - Songs of The Kinks_Sub Pop)
Mark Eitzel "Seeing Eyedog" (New Sounds Of The Old West Vol. 3_Loose)
Christina Rosenvinge "Expensive Shoes" (Frozen Pool_Smells Like Records)
Silver Jews "Long Long Gone" (Tennessee EP_Domino)
Neil Young "Let's Roll" (white label)
Gram Parsons "A Song For You" (GP_Reprise)
Ryan Adams "From You To Me" (New York, New York EP_Lost Highway)
Evan Dando "The Outdoor Type" (Live at the Brattle Theatre/Griffith Sunset EP_Modular/EMI)
Paul Westerberg "Nowhere Man" (I Am Sam OST_Bmg/V2)
Wilco "Ashes Of American Flags" (Yankee Hotel Foxtrot)

pop depression #47
date: January 7th, 2002
features: Give The People What We Want - Songs of The Kinks, Mercury Rev, the Screws/the Dirtbombs...

Big Star "Jesus Christ" (Sister Lovers/Third_Rykodisc)
Melys "Chinese Whispers" (Chinese Whispers SP_Sylem Records)
Gorky Zygotic Mynci "Honeymoon With You" (How I Long To Feel That Summer In My Heart_Mantra)
Mull Historical Society "This Is Not Who We Were" (Loss_Blanco Y Negro)
Matthew Sweet "I Should Have Never Let You Know" (In Revers_BMG)
Half Man Half Biscuit "Bob Willson: Anchor Man" (Editor's Recommendation_Probe Plus)
Richard Hawley "Something Is...!" (Late Night Final_Bar/None)
Tom T. Hall "Mr. Bojangles" (Nashville Storyteller_Camden)
Laura Cantrell "Two Seconds" (John Peel Session 010201_bootleg)
Christina Rosenvinge "Expensive Shoes" (Frozen Pool_Smells Like Records)
Mercury Rev "Planet Caravan" (The Dark Is Rising CDEP_V2)
Teddy Pendergrass "Love TKO" (The Best Of The Teddy Pendergrass_The Right)
Nick Lowe "Lately I Let Things Slide" (The Convincer_Yep Roc)
Neil Young "I Believe In You" (After The Goldrush_Reprise)
Baby Gramps "Sunny Afternoon" (Give The People What We Want - Songs of The Kinks_Sub Pop)
White Stripes "Jolene" (John Peel Sessions 250701_bootleg)
the Dirtbombs "I'll Wait" (Ultraglide In Black_In The Red)
the Von Bondies "Nite Train (Lack Of Communication_SFTRI)
Detroit Cobras "Boss Lady" (Love, Life & Leaving_SFTRI)
the Screws "The Storm" (Shake Your Monkey_In The Red)
Fugazi "Argument" (Argument_Dischord)
Tompauline "My Life At The Movies" (My Life At The Movies 7'' SP_Ugly Man)
Camera Obscura "Swimming Pool" (Biggest Bluest Hi-Fi_Andmoresound)
Belle & Sebastian "The Magic Of A Kind Word (For Papa John)" (John Peel Sessions_bootleg)
Zwan "Don't Let Me Down"
Husker Du "Diane" (Metal Circus_SST)
Wipers "Nothing Left To Lose" (Best of Wipers and Greg Sage_Restless)
Sadies "Mother Of Earth" (Tremendous Efforts_Bloodshot)
Treat Her Right "Factory Girl" (What's Good For You_Rounder)
Clem Snide "Let's Explode (Master Cylinder Remix)" (mp3.com)
David McComb "I Want To Conquer You" (Love Of Will_Mushroom)
Lambchop "Up With People" (VA - OH, MERGE_Merge)
Curtis Mayfield "Give Me Your Love (Love Song)" (Superfly_Curtom)
Super Furry Animals "Northern Lites" (Guerilla_Flydaddy)
Ladytron "The Way That I Found You" (604_Invicta Hi-Fi)
Bertrand Burgalat "Ma Rencontre" (The SSSound Of MMMusic_Eperor Norton)
Stereolab "Captain Easychord" (Sound-Dust_Elektra)
Arab Strap "Last Orders" (The Red Thread_Chemikal Underground)
John Wolfington "12 mph" (John Wolfington_Smells Like Records)
Papa M "Tamu" (Whatever, Mortal_Domino)
Bonnie Prince Billy "Same Love That Makes Me Lough" (More Revery_Domino)
the Posies "With Those Eyes" (Nice Cheeckbones and A Ph.d_Houston Party)
Spirit "Nature's Way" (Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus_Epic/Legacy)
Mark Lanegan "One Way Street" (Field Songs_Beggars Banquet)
Silver Jews "I'm Gonna Love the Hell Out of You" (Tennessee EP_Domino)
Bill Janovitz "Half A Heart" (Up Here_spinART)
Chris Von Sneidern "Dream Away" (Big White Lies_Heyday)
Cinerama "Lollobrigida" (Disco Volante_Scopitone)
Cosmic Rough Riders "Brand New Car" (Deliverance_Raft)
Daryll-Ann "Happy Christmas (War Is Over)"
Calexico "Ballad Of Cable Hogue (french version)" (www.casadecalexico.com)
Ryan Adams "Firecracker" (Gold_Lost Highway)
the Dears "End Of A Hollywood Bedtime Story" (End Of A Hollywood Bedtime Story_Grenadine Records)

pop depression #48
date: January 14th, 2002
Love Songs Special
features: Spearmint, Mercury Rev, the Dirtbombs, Camera Obscura, Tompaulin...

Belle & Sebastian "Dirty Dream Number 2" (The Boy With The Arab Strap_Jeepster)
Frank Blake "Don't Let Love Pass You By" (VA Shoeshine chartbusters_Shoeshine)
Spearmint "Distant Star" (A Different Lifetime_hitBACK)
Sunshine Club "Happy Song" (Home_Glitterhouse)
The Go-Betweens "Love Is A Sign" (16 Lovers Lane_Rough Trade)
Magnetic Fields "The One You Really Love" (69 Love Songs_Merge)
Spearmint "Julie Christie!" (A Different Lifetime_hitBACK)
Big Star "When My Baby's Beside Me" (No. 1 Record_Ardent)
American Music Club "Wish The World Away" (San Francisco_Reprise)
Tompaulin "My Life At The Movies" (My Life At The Movies 7''_Ugly Man)
Spearmint "Scottish Pop" (A Different Lifetime_hitBACK)
the Triffids "Bury Me Deep In Love" (Australian Melodrama_Mushroom)
the Dears "Heartless Romantic" (End Of A Hollywood Bedtime Story_Grenadine Records)
Gene Clark "Silver Raven" (Full Circle_Raven)
Beth Orton "I Love How You Love Me" (Stolen Car EP_Heavenly)
Spearmint "The Moment In My Mind" (A Different Lifetime_hitBACK)
Camera Obscura "Houseboat" (Biggest Bluest Hi-Fi_Andmoresound)
Nova Mob "Please Don't Ask" (s/t_Restless)
Spearmint "Go" (A Different Lifetime_hitBACK)
Wilco "How To Fight Loneliness" (Sumer Teeth_Reprise)
Afghan Whigs "My Curse" (Gentleman_Reprise)
Christina Rosenvinge "Seems So Long Ago, Nancy" (Frozen Pool_Smells Like records)
Papa M "Beloved Woman" (Whatever, Mortal_Domino)
Mercury Rev "Planet Caravan" (The Dark Is Rising CDEP_V2)
Spearmint "Flaming Lips" (A Different Lifetime_hitBACK)
the Dirtbombs "Your Love Belongs Under The Rock" (Ultraglide In Black_In The Red)
Detroit Cobras "Putty (In YourHands)" (Mink Rat or Riot_SFTRI)
Spearmint "Single Again" (A Different Lifetime_hitBACK)
Curtis Mayfield "This Year" (A Man Like Curtis)

pop depression #49
date: January 21th, 2002
Laidback Special
features: Lambchop, Daryll-Ann, Spearmint, Chris Lee, Christina Rosenvinge, Tompaulin...

Jerry Butler "You Don't Know What You Got Until You Lose It (Iceman: The Mercury Years_Mercury)
Belle & Sebastian "Belle & Sebastian" (Dog On Wheels_Jeepster)
Swans "Love Will Tear Us Apart [Red Version, M.G. Vocal]" (Love Will Tear Us Apart EP_Caroline)
Spearmint "A Different Lifetime" (A Different Lifetime_hitBACK)
Lambchop "The Daily Growl" (Is A Woman_Merge)
Shelby Lynne "Black Light Blue" (I AM Shelby Lynne_Island)
Christina Rosenvinge "Hunters Lullabye" (Frozen Pool_Smells Like records)
Lambchop "I Can Hardly Spell My Name" (Is A Woman_Merge)
Twilight Singers "Twilight Kid" (Twilight..._Columbia)
Birdie "Lift Up The Sun" (Sidewalk CDS_It)
Matthew Sweet w/Indigo Girls "Cortez The Killer" (Goodfriend_bootleg)
Neil Young "Tell My Why" (After The Goldrush_Reprise)
Chris Lee "On The Beach" (Plays & Sings Torch'd Songs, Charivari Hymns & Oriki Blue-Marches_Smells like Records)
Nick Drake "Northern Sky" (Bryter Lyter_Island)
Tindersticks "One Way Street" (Can We Start Again CDEP_Rough Trade)
Rufus Wainwright "Grey Gardens" (Poses_Dreamworks)
Lambchop "Is A Woman" (Is A Woman_Merge)
Papa M "Over Jordan" (Whatever, Mortal_Domino)
Daryll-Ann "Swords & Words" (Trailer Tails_Excelsior)
The Dears "C'estait Pour La Passion" (End Of A Hollywood Bedtime Story_Grenadine)
Beth Orton "Don't Wanna Know About Evil" (Superpinkymandy_EMI Japan)
Tompaulin "My Life At The Movies" (My Life At The Movies 7''_Ugly Man)

pop depression #50
date: January 28th, 2002
Big STAR Tribute Show
features: the Posies, Wilco, Daryll-Ann, Matthew Sweet, Damon & Naomi, This Mortal Coil ...


Big Star "September Gurls" (Radio City_Ardent/Stax)

the Posies "Feel" (Feel/I Am The Cosmos_SP PopLlama 7")
Big Star "Don't Lie To me" (No.1 Records_Ardent/Stax)
Cheap Trick "That 70's Song (In The Street) "Authorized Greatest Hits 2000_Epic/Legacy)
Matthew Sweet w/Mike Mills & Jody Stephens "The Ballad of El Goodo" (Ignition cass sampler)
Big Star "The India Song" (No.1 Records_Ardent/Stax)
Kelly Willis "When My Baby's Beside Me" (Take Me Down CDEP_Rykodisc)
Big Star "Give me Another Chance" (No.1 Records_Ardent/Stax)
Wilco "Thirteen" (Outtasite (Outta Mind) French EP_Reprise)
Big Star "O My Soul" (Radio City_Ardent/Stax)
the Posies "What's Going Ahn" (At Least, At Last box set_Not Lame)
Big Star "Daizy Glaze" (Radio City_Ardent/Stax)
Loud Family "Back of a Car" (Slouching Towards Liverpool_Alias)
Big Star "I'm In Love With The Girl" (Radio City_Ardent/Stax)
Chris Bell "I Am The Cosmos" (I Am The Cosmos_Rykodisc)
This Mortal Coil "You and Your Sister" (Blood_4AD)
Big Star "Thank You, Friends" (Third/Sister Lovers_Rykodisc)
Teenage Fanclub "Jesus Christ" (Ain't That Enough EP_Sony)
Big Star "Nighttime" (Third/Sister Lovers_Rykodisc)
Son Volt "Holocaust" (Straightface EP_WB)
Damon & Naomi with Ghost "Blue Moon" (Damon & Naomi with Ghost_Sub Pop)
Big Star "Take Care" (Third/Sister Lovers_Rykodisc)
the Posies "I Am The Cosmos" (The Best of the Posies - Dream All Day_Geffen)
the Replacements "Alex Chilton" (Pleased To Meet Me_Sire)
Teenage Fanclub with Big Star "Mine Exclusively" (NME giveaway 7'')
Big Star "Till The End Of The Day" (Third/Sister Lovers_Rykodisc)
The Bangles "September Gurls" (Different Light_Columbia)
Big Star "For You" (Third/Sister Lovers_Rykodisc)
This Mortal Coil "Holocaust" (It'll End In Tears_4AD)
Daryll-Ann "Thirteen" (Stay CDEP_Virgin/Hut)

The Beginning ... 1996. ...

Commercial Appeal of Memphis on Sunday /clipping/

Big Star planning to write new song for tribute album, by Jody Callahan (reprinted without permission)

For the first time in two decades, there will be new music from Big Star. The legendary Memphis band, which has reunited for several concerts in the past few years, will write and record a new song for this fall's tribute record.
I had a strong desire to do a new Big Star song," said drummer Jody Stephens, who joins original band member Alex Chilton in the reunited group. To make up for the absence of original members Chris Bell and Andy Hummel, Stephens and Chilton are joined by Ken Stringfellow and Jon Auer of the Posies. It's interesting when you go to write a song like that. Alex has a solo career now, and that's defined by a particular style of music that differs from what Big Star was doing. It could be that Alex was waiting for the right moment to write this song, Stephens added.
Also, Stephens said the roster for the tribute album is nearly complete. According to Stephens, the unnamed record will have at least 11 songs, including the new Big Star song (Hot Thing).

Confirmed acts and songs are:

Gin Blossoms
Back of a Car
Matthew Sweet with Jody Stephens on drums & R.E.M. bassist Mike Mills The Ballad of El Goodo
The Posies What's Going Ahn
Juliana Hatfield Don't Lie To Me
Teenage Fanclub Jesus Christ
The Idle Wilds You Get What You Deserve
Sister Hazel September Gurls
Kelly Willis
When My Baby's Beside Me
Whiskeytown Give Me Another Chance
Wilco Thirteen
Son Volt Holocaust
Afghan Whigs Nighttime
...

#1 Record Ardent/Stax, 1972. Radio City Ardent/Stax, 1974. 3rd/Sister Lovers PVC/Rykodisc 1978/1992.
The End ? ... 2002. ...
It's almost certain that we'll never see Big Star, Small World - A Tribute To Big Star album. Almost 6 years after the first press info about this project, nobody can tell anything specific about some future release date or final tracklisting. Over the years, many of the planned songs resurfaced on singles, compilations or various Internet sources (napster/audiogalaxy...). This is my small contribution to one of the biggest groups ever. I couldn't do this without a few Big Star Internet resources, which you can find listed below. Please, visit them - you'll find something helpful there, I'm sure.
Belgrade, January 2002.

Big Star by Others - The Cover Songs of Legendary Memphis Band
 
the Posies Feel 
Feel/I Am The Cosmos SP, 1992. PopLlama 7"

Big Star tribute single - the sleeve is a mock up of the first Big Star album.

Originally from #1 Record Ardent/Stax, 1972. song by Chris Bell/Alex Chilton
Garbage Thirteen
Push It CDEP, 1998. Mushroom Records



Originally from #1 Record Ardent/Stax, 1972. song by Chris Bell/Alex Chilton
Kelly Willis When My Baby's Beside Me
Take Me Down CDEP, 1999. Rykodisc

Intended to be on Big Star, Small World - A Tribute To Big Star album (Ignition).

Originally from #1 Record Ardent/Stax, 1972. song by Chris Bell/Alex Chilton
Posies I Am The Cosmos
The Best of the Posies - Dream All Day, 2000. Geffen

Wonderful version of I Am The Cosmos finally released on CD.

Originally from I Am the Cosmos Rykodisc, 1977/1992 song by Chris Bell
The Loud Family Back of a Car

Slouching Towards Liverpool, 1993. Alias

Scott Miller's odds-and-ends EP with a live cover of Big Star's Back of a Car.

Originally from Radio City Ardent/Stax, 1974. song by Alex Chilton/Andy Hummel

Matthew Sweet w/Mike Mills & Jody Stephens
The Ballad of El Goodo
bootleg, promo Ignition cass sampler, 1996.

Intended to be on Big Star, Small World - A Tribute To Big Star album (Ignition).

Originally from #1 Record Ardent/Stax, 1972. song by Chris Bell/Alex Chilton
Son Volt Holocaust
Straightface EP, 1998. 4 song promo EP, WB

Intended to be on Big Star, Small World - A Tribute To Big Star album (Ignition).

Originally from Third/Sister Lovers Rykodisc 1978/1992 song by Alex Chilton
This Mortal Coil Kangaroo
It'll End in Tears, 1984. 4AD

Simon Raymonde's distinctive bass line leads Cindytalk singer Gordon Sharp through Kangaroo, a song of fragmented instrumentation and broken dreams, like love viewed through the cracks in a windshield.

Originally from Third/Sister Lovers Rykodisc 1978/1992 song by Alex Chilton
This Mortal Coil You and Your Sister
Blood, 1991. 4AD

Standout performance of Chris Bell's epic, by the Breeders' Kim Deal and Belly's Tanya Donelly.

Originally from I Am the Cosmos Rykodisc 1977/1992 song by Chris Bell
Damon & Naomi with Ghost Blue Moon
Damon & Naomi with Ghost 2000. Sub Pop

This cover is from magnificent Damon & Naomi album (on this occasion for the first time without Kramer), made with Japanese folk band Ghost.

Originally from Third/Sister Lovers Rykodisc 1978/1992 song by Alex Chilton
the Posies What's Going Ahn
At Least At Last box set, 2000. Not Lame

Intended to be on Big Star, Small World - A Tribute To Big Star album (Ignition).

Originally from #1 Record Ardent/Stax, 1972. song by Chris Bell/Alex Chilton
Teenage Fanclub Jesus Christ
Ain't That Enough EP, 1997. Sony

Intended to be on Big Star, Small World - A Tribute To Big Star album (Ignition), resurfaced on one of the Songs From The Northern Britain era singles.

Originally from Third/Sister Lovers Rykodisc 1978/1992 song by Alex Chilton
The Bangles September Gurls
Different Light, 1985. Columbia

From the second album of Paisley Underground heroins.

Originally from Radio City Ardent/Stax, 1974. song by Chris Bell/Alex Chilton
Evan Dando The Ballad of El Goodo
OST Empire Records, 1995. A&M

Evan Dando on one of his best Alex Chilton impersonations.


Originally from #1 Record Ardent/Stax, 1972. song by Chris Bell/Alex Chilton
Superdrag September Gurls
Sucked Out German CDS, 1996. Elektra

Live version of this classic power-pop gem.

Originally from Radio City Ardent/Stax, 1974. song by Bell/Chilton
Daryll-Ann Thirteen
Stay CDEP, 1995. Virgin/Hut

Magnificient Dutch power-pop combo.

Originally from #1 Record Ardent/Stax, 1972. song by Bell/Chilton
Wilco Thirteen
Outtasite (Outta Mind) French Import Promo EP, 1997. Reprise

Intended to be on Big Star, Small World - A Tribute To Big Star album (Ignition)

Originally from #1 Record Ardent/Stax, 1972. song by Bell/Chilton
the Walkabouts Big Black Car
DEATH VALLEY DAYS: Lost Songs and Rarities 1985-1995, 1996. Glitterhouse
An Alex Chilton song that he recorded in 1974. for Big Star's Sister Lovers album. To some it may seem like images of bleak isolation, but to me it's always sounded like a Sunday afternoon song, more a product of being at a loose end than being in despair. Paul Ricketts
Originally from Third/Sister Lovers Rykodisc 1978/1992 song by Alex Chilton
Elliot Smith Thirteen
Demo

Unreleased Elliott Smith's song live.

Originally from #1 Record Ardent/Stax, 1972. song by Chris Bell/Alex Chilton
Cheap Trick That 70's Song (In The Street)
Authorized Greatest Hits 2000. Epic/Legacy

This rendition of That 70's Song (In the Street) is famed for its use as a television theme.

Originally from #1 Record Ardent/Stax, 1972. song by Chris Bell/Alex Chilton
This Mortal Coil I am the Cosmos

Blood, 1991. 4AD

Voices by Dominic Appleton Breathless & Deirdre Rutkowski Cocteau Twins.

Originally from I Am the Cosmos Rykodisc, 1977/1992 song by Chris Bell

This Mortal Coil Holocaust
It'll End In Tears, 1984. 4AD

Howard Devoto (of Magazin and Buzzcocks fame) sings the disturbing Alex Chilton's lament.

Originally from Third/Sister Lovers Rykodisc 1978/1992 song by Alex Chilton

Big Star Resources
Alex Chilton/Big Star Central
Unofficial Big Star Homepage from Chris Bray
Japanese Big Star Tribute Page
This Mortal Coil


pop depression #51

date: February 4th, 2002
features: Lambchop, Stephin Merritt, Daryll-Ann, Walkabouts, Mercury Rev ...

Zwan "Don't Let Me Down" (bootleg)
J Mascis "Leaving On The Jet Plane" (Sub Pop 7'')
Centro-Matic "Most Everyone Will Find" (Munich Records)
Cinerama "Your Charms" (John Peel Sessions 090102_bootleg)
Kinks "Waterloo Sunset" (The Best Of Kinks)
Jon Auer "Fancy" (Give The People What We Want_Sub Pop)
Velvet Crush "Circling The Sun" (A Single Oddessey_Action Music)
Tompaulin "My Life At The Movies" (The Town & The City_Ugly Man Records)
Spearmint "Julie Christie" (A Different Lifetime_HitBack/Apricot Records)
Stephin Merritt "Poppyland" (Eban & Charley_Merge)
Walkabouts "Radiant" (Ended Up With Stranger_Glitterhouse)
Lambchop "This Corrosion" (Is A Woman Bonus CD_City Slang)
Daryll-Ann "Equally Sympathy" (Trailer Tailes_Excelsior)
Clinic "Harmony" (Walking With Thee_Domino)
Stephin Merritt "Some Summer Day" (Eban & Charley_Merge)
Papa M "Roses In The Snow" (Whatever, Mortal_Domino)
Christina Rosenvinge "Hunters Lullabye" (Frozen Pool_Smells Like Records)
Mercury Rev "Blue Skies" (The Dark Is Rising CDEP_V2)
Howlin' Maggie "Easy To Be Stupid" (Beautiful Girls OST_Sony)
Matthew Sweet "Winona" (Goodfriend bootleg)
The Dears "This Is A Broadcast" (End Of A Hollywood Bedtime Story_Grenadine)
Silver Jews "Horseleg Swastikas" (Bright Flight_Domino)
Ken Stringfellow "The Lover's Hymn" (Touched_Poptones)

pop depression #52
date: February 11th, 2002
features: Spearmint, Mercury Rev, Howie Gelb, John Wesley Harding ...

Postcard from Frankfurt, Germany. A few concerts, a lot of gossip, personal stories, new loves, John Wesley Harding "story", Spearmint impressions, Howe Gelb - "genius at work"?

Miss Aleksandra Niksic, pop depression special corespodent from Germany. A week and a half of living in a fast lane...

Quick rewind: concerts from 1999, 2000 and 2001 - Beck/Beth Orton in Paris, Elliott Smith in Paris, Oasis in Paris, Mercury Rev in Paris...

Aleksandra's playlist
Afghan Whigs "Retarded" (Up In It_Sub Pop)
Spearmint "Flaming Lips" (A Different Lifetime_hitBACK)
Spearmint.net


Shirley Lee
28 Jan. 2002. Frankfurt, Cookys


spearmint live at the Spitz, 21/7/01
John Wesley Harding "The Devil In Me" (Here Comes The Groom_Sire)

Playlist, 30th January 2002, Sinkkasten, Frankfurt

It Stays
People Love To Watch You Die
Sleeper, Awake
Ordinary Weekend
I'm Wrong About Everything
Little Musgrave
Still Photo
Our Lady Of The Highways
Same Piece Of Air
When You Smile
Save A Little Room For Me
Window Seat
Scared Of Guns
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Pull
Spaced Cowgirl
Giant Sand "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" (Off. Bootleg Series v. 3 - Unsung Glum)
GiantSand.Com


photo by Bill Carter
Howe Gelb, 31.01.2002. Frankfurt, Koz


photo by Steffen Paulus

Enjoy and listen one of the concerts from this tour (link from GiantSand.com)
Howe Gelb at Kino, Ebensee, Germany, 26 January 2002
Recorded by: Stefan Röhrich. 33 minutes.

Tracks:
There Are Two Moons
Wayfaring Stranger/Fly Me To The Moon
Sage Advice
Shiver
Blue Marble Girl
Instrumental
America The Beautiful/You Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory
El Paso/Out On The Weekend

Play Show
Beck "MTV Makes Me Wanna Smoke